A local Catholic priest has been found in a compromising situation. Keep the community your prayers. It sounds as if he has been transferred around a bit. I hope the diocese was not aware of any prior actions and permitted him to stay on...

The term planet earth is an innovation which has arisen in recent centuries with the error of heliocentrism.

If one wants to confess a pure doctrine of Orthodoxy, they should be careful not to refer to the earth as a planet, unlike the current Pope as well as Patriarch Kirill and Patriarch Bartholomew, who regularly speak in error when they refer to our planet earth.

A local Catholic priest has been found in a compromising situation. Keep the community your prayers. It sounds as if he has been transferred around a bit. I hope the diocese was not aware of any prior actions and permitted him to stay on...

This is very disturbing regardless of which church, temple, synagogue or mosque may be involved. The violation of a child, teenager or vulnerable adult by someone in a position of trust or authority is deeply disturbing for the victim and others around him or her. And for the community they are supposed to lead. No wonder the OP asked for prayers for the communities involved.

I hope the victims get all the help they deserve, although I fear many may remain traumatised and unknown for too long. And I hope that anyone hid this has the book thrown at them.

I wonder if the diocese or the "pope" will remove his faculties over this

Because, after all........who is he to judge homosexuals?

Sorry, the abuse of a child, teenager or vulnerable adult by an adult in a position of trust does not simply equate with 'homosexuality'. If a man or woman were to similarly abuse a young person of the opposite sex we would not pass it off. So, please, your point is?

(If I come over short it is because I have seen the trauma such abuse can cause, life long in a lot of cases. So for me there is no room for levity around this issue).

I wonder if the diocese or the "pope" will remove his faculties over this

Because, after all........who is he to judge homosexuals?

Sorry, the abuse of a child, teenager or vulnerable adult by an adult in a position of trust does not simply equate with 'homosexuality'. If a man or woman were to similarly abuse a young person of the opposite sex we would not pass it off. So, please, your point is?

(If I come over short it is because I have seen the trauma such abuse can cause, life long in a lot of cases. So for me there is no room for levity around this issue).

Deplorable and as sickening as such activities are, it's so much more so vile when they are perpetrated by clergy, thus likewise defiling the pristine church. At least the superior ecclesiastical authority has taken appropriate immediate action.

I wonder if the diocese or the "pope" will remove his faculties over this

Because, after all........who is he to judge homosexuals?

Sorry, the abuse of a child, teenager or vulnerable adult by an adult in a position of trust does not simply equate with 'homosexuality'. If a man or woman were to similarly abuse a young person of the opposite sex we would not pass it off. So, please, your point is?

(If I come over short it is because I have seen the trauma such abuse can cause, life long in a lot of cases. So for me there is no room for levity around this issue).

The term planet earth is an innovation which has arisen in recent centuries with the error of heliocentrism.

If one wants to confess a pure doctrine of Orthodoxy, they should be careful not to refer to the earth as a planet, unlike the current Pope as well as Patriarch Kirill and Patriarch Bartholomew, who regularly speak in error when they refer to our planet earth.